The following are translations of editorials from the workplace newsletters of the organization L’Étincelle (The Spark), a Trotskyist group in France.
With the arrogance of an ex-business banker, Macron has led attack after attack against workers …
There were a lot of retirees out on March 15th. Tens of thousands of them …
Macron’s hypocritical speech on February 21st, giving moral lessons and asking for a truce in …
Macron’s Bulldozer keeps moving forward. After the rulings on labour law, and before reforming unemployment …
Macron was visibly annoyed by Burkina Faso student questions during his African Trip, when he …
Images originally shown November 14th on CNN have made it around the world. They show …
Macron’s reform for higher education, the “education plan”, unveiled on October 30th, will be debated …
An international collaboration between news organisations revealed some dark secrets of fiscal “optimisation” practiced by …
What the bosses’ union (Medef) had been dreaming about, the government did. The administration put …
Following the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s case, more and more women have started to talk …
Asked about the Harvey Weinstein story during his October 15th long interview on the TF1 …
On October 15th, Emmanuel Macron held the floor for over an hour on the TF1 …
While visiting Corrèze, Emmanuel Macron was heckled by the workers at GM&S, an automobile subcontractor, …
With clubs and rubber bullets, repression hit the independence referendum organised on October 1st in …
Last Thursday, called by the union confederations CGT, FSU and Solidaires, between 132,000 (according to …
223,000 demonstrators according to the police, 500,000 according to union confederations: September 12’s mobilisation was …
Once again, President Macron let drop a comment full of contempt. He declared he would …
It’s true, the government is doing its best to welcome them. It passed measures after …
Facilitate layoffs, limit the period during which workers can file a complaint to the industrial …
Heat waves like last week’s – which hit 66 departments for several days – may …
Macron will get a majority of representatives ready to go “forward”. Since Sunday night, the …
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe just chose his general staff to lead the bosses attacks. Macron …
Emmanuel Macron (66.1%) won the second round of the presidential election against Marine Le Pen …
No surprise. The polls correctly predicted who would benefit from the discredit of the left …
Working class people are angry – and rightly so – against Fillon, Macron, Le Pen, …
Philippe Poutou is a worker at Ford near Bordeaux. His program is first and foremost …
That’s what they want to believe! Every time Philippe Poutou talks about his program, on …
Philippe Poutou is running for president. He is a worker at Ford Blanquefort, near Bordeaux, …
In the last few episodes of the Fillon saga, the conservative candidate acted as the …
Thousands of demonstrators protested against police brutality in Paris last Saturday. They expressed their support …
Theo, 21, was raped during a police check in the Rose des Vents neighborhood of …
Valls had to swallow his pride after losing the socialist primary. After all the attacks …
Not many people made the effort to participate in the Socialist Party primary on Sunday. …
On January 20th, the racist and misogynist billionaire is sworn in as the head of …
Happy new year: the world top five billionaires of the year earned €42 billion altogether. …
In brutal cold and hunger, over 40,000 trapped civilians in East Aleppo were still waiting …
Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and most major cities have experienced the largest pollution episode in over …
Satisfactory! That is how Hollande dared qualify his presidency, before renouncing another bid, making way …
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election provoked emotion and concern among the people …
At the time of this writing, the result of the American presidential election is still …
The government wanted to sell a beautiful story, that of a giant slum of 10,000 …
Dressed in black, with hoods or masks and some of them armed, the demonstrators marched …
The debate between the seven candidates in the conservative primary has, unsurprisingly, shown that they …
France, Europe, “welcoming lands”? What a sinister joke! Hollande may cry over the fate of …
While visiting Calais, Francois Hollande promised to break up the “jungle”, the camp where refugees …
Bosses are on the offensive The announcement on September 7 by Alstom management of the …
On the right and on the left, we are treated to a parade of candidates …
Last Friday, the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, went to Calais to announce the coming dismantling …
There was no summer break for government’s attacks against workers. As if forcing through the …
Brexit has prevailed with 51.9% of the votes in the referendum that took place on …
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